[novatea]

I'm in Hack Club, the team is moving all of us to self-hosted Mattermost. It is unfortunate that we have to re-code so many things though.

[devoutsalsa]

I've never used Mattermost before today. After checking out their site, I can see they are also a for-profit company. What does Mattermost offer that Slack does not, other than a bill lower than $195K/year?

[actionfromafar]

You can deploy it self-hosted without paying any fee, so you control your data much more.

[ForHackernews]

Mattermost is open-core software: you can self-host and they can't turn you off or raise the price.

[shaky-carrousel]

I personally see any kind of subscription as a technical debt.

[mobilemidget]

Does give you more things to 'hack' for the club. Not all bad I guess, and saving that amount of money is worth creating some 'new projects'.

[gregoriol]

Matrix would be a better alternative

[_zoltan_]

mattermost is so so so clunky and uncomfortable, but hey, it's free...

[Freak_NL]

Is it? We've been using it self-hosted for years, together with GitLab. It meets all the needs of a small company, and is very pleasant to work with for devs too (i.e., basic Markdown just works, so you can post anything from code to log snippets in a sensible manner).

Setting up Mattermost was one of the best decisions we've made with regards to our tools.

[fransje26]

> mattermost is so so so clunky and uncomfortable

I'm quite sure they are open to pull-requests..